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1  The two were kept apart, and each walked surrounded by a separate guard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  The sergeant ran in first, when we had run the noise quite down, and two of his men ran in close upon him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
3  That's not so bad," said the sergeant, reflecting; "even if I was forced to halt here nigh two hours, that'll do.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  We could not go fast, because of their lameness; and they were so spent, that two or three times we had to halt while they rested.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
5  Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dumb-bells.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
6  She had her back towards me, and held her pretty brown hair spread out in her two hands, and never looked round, and passed out of my view directly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  Our lights warmed the air about us with their pitchy blaze, and the two prisoners seemed rather to like that, as they limped along in the midst of the muskets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  There we were stopped a few minutes by a signal from the sergeant's hand, while two or three of his men dispersed themselves among the graves, and also examined the porch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
10  She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
11  So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home; and we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
12  You know, Pip," said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, "you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
14  Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
15  It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
16  Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
17  Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had retired before us, drew the back of his hand across his nose with a conciliatory air, when Mrs. Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs. Joe was in a cross temper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
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